Is it good to eat bitter vegetables?

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Currently, bitter vegetables are gradually becoming very popular in Vietnamese family meals, when this vegetable is considered to bring many health benefits. So, is it good to eat bitter vegetables and how to use them effectively?

1. Learn about bitter vegetables

Bitter vegetable, also known as herringbone plant, has a bitter taste and is used as a medicine with quite good antibacterial effect. Moreover, bitter vegetables are also a source of beneficial nutrients such as: Tanin, saponin, alkaloids, vitamin C ....
Bitter vegetables have a bitter feeling and taste, but are divided into earth bitter vegetables and vegetables. sea ​​bitter.

2. The effect of bitter vegetables

Ground bitter gourd and sea bitter gourd are two types of vegetables found and included in the study. The results have shown that each type has its own use, but to clarify questions such as whether eating bitter vegetables is good? Eat bitter vegetables to lose weight, let's learn more about this vegetable.
2.1 Soil bittersweet Soil bittersweet is a plant found above ground. They grow close to the ground and grow all year round. Some have small stems with many segments, growing up to 30cm tall. This vegetable has fruit and flowers, but flowers bloom in May-June.
For bitter vegetables, all parts can be processed and used as traditional medicine.
Bitter vegetables have a positive effect on the digestive tract, reduce fever and detoxify the liver .... For people with pathologies such as urinary incontinence, kidney stones, hot flashes... can also use bitter vegetables to treatment. When used at the same time, your body will be supplemented with an amount of vitamin C to help improve resistance and protect the vessel wall. Especially for patients with fever or cough, bitter vegetables should also be used to help relieve the disease.
A number of research projects on bitter vegetables have found a connection in fighting redox reactions with free radicals. Minimizing the oxidation of free radicals has practical benefits for research on cancer treatment and cancer cell formation.
Thanks to the good uses, capable of inhibiting the growth of cancer cells, research scientists have found a way for bitter vegetables to support cancer patients. At the same time, they hope in the future this will be the foundation for definitive treatment regimens for cancer, a dangerous incurable disease.

2.2 Sea bittersweet Sea bittersweet names do not reflect the specific habitats of bitter gourds. Seaweed is found in places such as swamps or wet lawns right in the fields. Therefore, bitter vegetables grown in the field are also known as field bitter vegetables.
Like the bitter gourd, the shape of the sea bitter gourd is also a herbaceous plant that grows on the ground. However, sea bitter melon can grow up to 40cm taller than ground bitter gourd. Flowering season of sea bitter melon usually comes about 1 month earlier than bitter gourd, the flowers of the vegetable will grow individually with white color.
From the perspective of Traditional Medicine, bitter vegetables have cool, heat-clearing, diuretic properties. For easier identification, people in each place call this vegetable with a different name such as: trichium, purslane, etc. To treat diseases with sea bitter vegetables, you need to clean and dry them first. when using. Each time use the scale to take 6-12g to drink.
Competing with earth bitter vegetables, it can be said that sea bitter vegetables are on par with alkaloids and saponins. These are substances that work with circulation to help blood circulation to prevent dangerous diseases. In India, medicine has mentioned bitter vegetables with the ability to enhance memory, relieve stress and limit the recurrence of epilepsy significantly.
A number of other powers also opened up studies on bitter vegetables and its benefits to human psyche. Some countries have announced that bitter vegetables can have a positive effect on depression, nervous breakdown, even the elderly have a stroke. In the latest studies on bitter vegetables, scientists have demonstrated the ability of this plant to inhibit inflammation in the joints.
A study of patients with osteoarthritis and osteoarthritis pain caused by inflammation showed that the inflammatory process was suppressed and there was a reduction in pain. However, herbs with only a certain amount of nutrients cannot completely replace current western medicine.

3. Eat bitter vegetables properly

Bitter taste, difficult to eat will make users feel uncomfortable and some skeptical eating bitter vegetables will have stomach pain? However, there are some people who eat it and get used to that bitter taste to the point of being able to eat a lot. The rest will choose processing or seasoning to reduce the bitterness of vegetables.
Besides, using bitter vegetables will be dangerous if you don't learn carefully. Some of the following cases should be considered when using:
Pregnant women who eat bitter vegetables have the risk of stimulating uterine contractions. Worse, it can cause miscarriage, bleeding, serious health danger. People with constipation eating bitter vegetables will be easy to digest, but the average person, if they absorb a large amount, can cause digestive disorders themselves. Does eating bitter vegetables lose weight? This is possible, but not entirely recognised. In addition, if you do not know how to use your body, you will fall into a state of fatigue and hangover. What are the benefits of eating bitter vegetables? Surely you already have your own answer. Although bitter vegetables are good, you should not overdo them. Any application that wants to be most effective requires a combination of many methods.

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